Quote by Jane Austen
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen

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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. – Jane Austen

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Weather
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There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person. – Jane Austen

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Shyness
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least. – Jane Austen

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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. – Minna Antrim

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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself — on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life… – Simone de Beauvoir

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If the wife sins, the husband is not innocent. – Italian Proverb

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Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night. – Jean Baudrillard

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Where ever I go, there I am. Drunk. – Rita E. Torres

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Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty–how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes. – Henry Ward Beecher

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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us. – Henry David Thoreau

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The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades. – Alice Cooper

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